Monica Porter

Were the wild Sixties really wild?

23 September 2024 2:57 pm

I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free…

Will Angela Rayner really water down the right-to-buy scheme?

5 September 2024 4:07 pm

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner is said to be planning on watering down the right-to-buy scheme which enables council tenants to…

What would Reagan make of Trump?

31 July 2024 2:30 pm

If the Donald Trump-JD Vance ticket is successful in November and the pair head to the White House, there is…

How Viktor Orbán plans to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

1 July 2024 9:38 pm

Hungary has just begun its presidency of the Council of the EU, as part of the member states’ six-monthly rotation…

Patience is running out with Nato in the Baltic states

16 June 2024 3:00 pm

You can’t miss the vast banner emblazoned on the high-rise building overlooking central Vilnius. It reads: PUTIN, THE HAGUE IS…

The quandary of being half-Jewish

1 April 2024 11:00 am

I was in my early twenties when I found out that I’m half-Jewish. Until then, as far as I was…

Is Viktor Orbán really anti-Semitic?

20 March 2024 9:51 pm

Much of the criticism directed at Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s long-serving populist prime minister, is richly deserved. Orbán poses as the…

The remarkable story of my mother, the heroine of the Holocaust

10 March 2024 5:30 pm

I’ve always loathed Russia: its regime, its remnants of enduring Stalin-worship, its rulers’ century of malign influence on the world.…